DESCRIPTION

Open a connection to the roard(1) and creates a new stream for playback, monetoring, recording or filtering.
After you are done you need to close the connection via roar_simple_close(3).
In case you just don't do anything with the stream the server will kick your connection, or, in case of playback
warns the user avout underruns.

PARAMETERS

rate

The sample rate of the stream.

channels

The nummber of channels in the stream.

bits

The number of bits per sample of the stream.
Commen values are 8 and 16.

codec

The Codec of the data you stream to the server.
This has nothing to do with codec of the file you are playing back or encoding.
Default (ROAR_CODEC_DEFAULT) is ROAR_CODEC_PCM_S_BE for signed PCM in big endian.

server

The name of the server. A value of NULL (common case) is used to try default locations.

name

The name of the process opening this stream to be listend in the servers meta data.
Should normaly be the name of the player without any path or filename being played.
If NULL an internal default is used.

NOTES ON FILTER STREAMS

Filtering streams should not expected to work with diffrent audio data than the server works with.
You should get the values via roar_server_oinfo(3) before opening the stream.

RETURN VALUE

On success these calls return a filehandle for the stream. On error, -1 is returned.